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2/8/17 To-do List

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Regarding the
DeVos vote, give your senators a call and let them know you're paying
attention. Thank them if they voted against her, and let them know you're
holding them accountable if they voted "aye" and that you'll
remember their vote come re-election.
The future of ALL our children’s education is in their hands.

Shortly after
the DeVos vote, a bill was introduced in the house to eliminate the
Department of Education with the reasoning that the appropriate policy
makers for education are those at the state and local level.

Congresswoman
Jackie Speier (D-CA) H.J.
Res. 53, a joint resolution that will remove the deadline and finally
allow for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). “When
asked, 96 percent of Americans think that women and men should have equal
rights, and 88 percent believe that our Constitution should affirm those
rights, while 72 percent of Americans mistakenly believe the Constitution
already includes such a guarantee,” Rep. Speier said. “Given the current political
climate, and the overwhelming support, it’s clear that the ERA is still a
necessity. As the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained
in a Supreme Court opinion, ‘Certainly the Constitution does not require
discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits
it. It doesn’t.’”https://speier.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congresswoman-speier-introduces-resolution-ratify-equal-rights-amendment
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced companion legislation two weeks
earlier. H.J. Res. 53 currently has 135 cosponsors. Contact your legislators and tell them
to get on board with this. The
time is long past for this to be the law of the land.

From the Weekly
Resistance: Trump's Muslim and
refugee ban is bigoted, dangerous, cruel and un-American. We cannot let it
stand. But Congressional Republican leadership isn'tallowingactiononDemocraticeffortsto get rid of it once and for all. So we're
calling Congress and demanding they use every tool they have to force a
vote on ending the ban for good. Go here for all the details: http://www.weekly-resistance.online/

Donald
Trump campaigned for President on a promise to obstruct and derail action
on climate change at every level. And, so far, his Administration is doing
just that.From cabinet picks to policy statements (or
tweets), it’s clear the Trump Administration’s goal is to undermine
progress on climate change.It’s up to us to make sure that doesn’t happen.Please join Greenpeace inmembers
of Congress on notice that you expect them to protect the commitments made
under the Paris Agreement to fight climate change and that you’ll be
holding them accountable.https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2059

Other Contacts to Make

Let’s
call our new Secretary of Education and let her know what is important to
us? Is it the student debt crisis,
enforcing special education law, keeping guns out of schools, how
important quality public education is to our country, the needs of
low-income school districts?? We
all know there are so many concerns.
It is time to tell her. Let's
welcome her to the job, and remind her of what it is she should do. She
wanted this so much she spent a fortune on it. Let's make it worth her
while. Call her: 202-401-3000 or fax
her: 202-260–7867
(use faxZERO for 5 free faxes a day:
https://faxzero.com/ )

Get the word
out for everyone to start using The People’s Calendar, a national
political event site created by RISE Stronger. Not only can you find events, but you
can add them as well! https://www.risestronger.org/events Let’s make this OUR calendar!

Rogan's List members who want to take action on Michigan issues can
receive a weekly e-mail of to-do items by signing up atwww.MichiganResistance.org.

The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the easement for DAPL, cutting
short the environmental impact assessment, as well as public comment.
"The Indigenous Coalition at Standing Rock is calling forFebruary 8thto be an international day of emergency
actions to disrupt business as usual and unleash a global intersectional
resistance to fossil fuels and fascism." See more information here: http://sacredstonecamp.org/blog/2017/2/7/breaking-army-corps-to-grant-dakota-access-easement A call for emergency actions all over the world. PLEASE, THIS IS OUR LAST
STAND. Please visiteverydayofaction.orgto
find or register an action wherever you are. Check out our world action
map atbit.ly/nodapl2017

Petitions to Sign

Join ParentsTogether
Action in working to save PBS Kids! “What will happen to PBS Kids if Trump’s cuts to public
broadcasting go through?No one knows for sure. But a 2012 reportby Booz & Company predicted “the loss of
federal support would mean the end of public broadcasting.”” Read and sign here (scroll all the way
to the bottom for two different signing options):
http://parentstogetheraction.org/2017/01/27/save-pbs-kids/

Social
media is an easy way to say something, but it’s a difficult way to be
heard. Thunderclap is the first-ever crowdspeaking platform that
helps people be heard by saying something together. It allows a single
message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, so it rises above the noise of
your social networks. By boosting the signal at the same time, Thunderclap
helps a single person create action and change like never before. https://www.thunderclap.it/

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..